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US4342248A
US4342248A US06/218,884 US21888480A US4342248A US 4342248 A US4342248 A US 4342248A US 21888480 A US21888480 A US 21888480A US 4342248 A US4342248 A US 4342248A
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  • This invention relates to keyboard operated electronic musical instruments and in particular is concerned with a provision for automatically assigning different tones to each of a number of notes played simultaneously on a single keyboard.
  • a limitation in the use of multiple keyboards to imitate a small orchestra is that usually a single tone color is mandated for all the notes played on a single keyboard as determined by the actuated stop switches. This is contrary to the musically desirable mode of separately assigning tone colors to the solo tone and each harmony tone to obtain a musical effect corresponding to orchestral music.
  • a computation cycle and a data transfer cycle are repetitively and independently implemented to provide data which are converted to musical waveshapes.
  • a number of master data sets are created by implementing a discrete Fourier algorithm using stored sets of harmonic coefficients which characterize preselected musical tones.
  • the computations are carried out at a fast rate which may be nonsynchronous with any musical frequency.
  • the harmonic coefficients and the orthogonal functions required by the Fourier algorithm are stored in digital form and the computations are carried out digitally.
  • the master data sets are stored in separate main registers.
  • a transfer cycle is initiated during which the master data sets are transferred in a prescribed manner to preselected members of a multiplicity of tone generators.
  • the output tone generation continues uninterrupted during the computation and transfer cycles.
  • the present invention is directed toward the assignment of the multiplicity of master data sets to tone generators in such a manner that the tonal selection is maintained in a desirable fashion between the solo melodic musical lines and the associated harmonic accompaniment musical lines on the same keyboard.
  • the highest frequency note is assigned a given master data set, or tone color, and each lower frequency actuated note is also assigned its own master data set.
  • New assignments of master data sets are made only when a new keyswitch is detected to have been actuated.
  • the present assignments are maintained unaltered when keyswitches for other notes are released.
  • the assigned tone colors can be selected from a variety of tones and are not restricted to be at the same musical stop footage.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the tone generating system.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the tone generator assignor.
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a selective vibrato control.
  • a chorus effect, or orchestra chorus is the generic term given to the musical effect in which a set of tones played on a single keyboard are generated with different tone colors.
  • the present invention is directed to an improvement in the tone generation system of a type that has the capability of simultaneously producing a multiplicity of musical waveshapes and arranged to produce a chorus effect.
  • a tone generation system of this type is described in detail in U.S. Pat. No. 4,085,644 entitled "Polyphonic Tone Synthesizer” and which is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • all elements of the system which are described in the referenced patent are identified by two digit numbers which correspond to the same numbered elements used in the patent.
  • All system element blocks which are identified by three digit numbers correspond to elements added to the Polyphonic Tone Synthesizer to implement the improvements of the present invention.
  • note detect and assignor 14 detects such keyswitch state changes and stores, for each actuated switch, information corresponding to the note within an octave, the octave number for the keyboard, and a keyboard identification number. This information is stored in a memory (not shown) which is a component of the note detect and assignor 14.
  • a suitable note detect and assignor subsystem is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,022,098 entitled "Keyboard Switch Detect And Assignor" which is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • Each keyswitch has two operational states. It can be in an actuated state, a "closed” position, or it can be in an unactuated state, an "open” position.
  • the operational states, or states, of a keyswitch are also called the keyswitch states.
  • the invention is described for three tone generators which are assigned to a single keyboard. It is a simple matter to extend the system to more than three tone generators which number does not represent a restriction or limitation of the present invention.
  • the subsystems described for a single keyboard can be duplicated for any desired number of keyboards.
  • a computation cycle is initiated by the executive control 16.
  • a sequence of computation cycles can be initiated when one or more keyswitches have been actuated on any of the keyboards. The start of any of the computation cycles in the sequence of computation cycles is inhibited until the completion of a transfer cycle so that the tone generation can continue uninterrupted during the repetitive sequences of computation cycle and transfer cycle.
  • executive control 16 resets the contents of the word counter 19 and the harmonic counter 20 to an initial state.
  • the word counter 19 is implemented to count modulo 64 corresponding to the number of equally spaced points for one period of a musical waveshape.
  • the word counter 19 is incremented by signals furnished by the executive control 16.
  • the count states of this counter are used to address data into and out of the set of main registers 34, 134, and 234 when this source of addressing data is selected by the clock select 42 during a computation cycle.
  • the harmonic counter 20 is incremented each time that the word counter 19 returns to its initial count state.
  • the harmonic counter 20 is implemented to count modulo 32.
  • the general rule is that the maximum number of harmonics is no greater than one-half of the number of equally spaced points defining one period of the musical waveshape.
  • Gate 22 in response to a signal from the executive control 16, transfers the current state of the harmonic counter 20 to the adder-accumulator 21 which adds the transferred data to the current data in its accumulator.
  • the contents of the adder-accumulator 21 are called argument values and are used by the memory address decoder 23 to address, or access, stored trigonometric function values from the sinusoid table 24.
  • the trigonometric function data values addressed out from the sinusoid table 24 are furnished as one of the inputs to the set of multipliers 28, 128, and 228.
  • the second input to these multipliers are harmonic coefficients that are read out of the associated harmonic coefficient memories 26, 226 and 326.
  • Each harmonic coefficient memory stores sets of harmonic coefficients corresponding to a library of musical tones. The selection of the stored harmonic coefficients is made by means of the associated tone switches. The tone switches are also called stops or stop switches.
  • Each set of harmonic coefficients comprises a set of 32 data words corresponding to the maximum count state of the harmonic counter 20.
  • the memory address decoder 35 addresses out the harmonic coefficients from the harmonic coefficient memories in response to the count states of the harmonic counter 20.
  • each of the multipliers 28, 128 and 228 is added to data addressed out from their associated main registers and the sum is stored in these registers.
  • each of the main registers 34, 134, and 234 will contain a master data set corresponding to one period of a musical waveshape determined by the actuated states of the tone switches.
  • the tone generators contain elements that are used to translate the master data set information into audible musical sounds.
  • Each tone generator contains a note register which stores a master data set, a note clock means for reading out data from an associated note register at a rate corresponding to the musical frequency of an actuated keyboard switch, a digital-to-analog converter for converting the digital waveshape data to analog signals, and a sound system for producing audible tones from the analog signals. It is common practice to use a single sound system shared by all of the tone generators.
  • FIG. 2 shows the detailed system logic of the generator assignor 141.
  • the assignment of the master data sets residing in the three main registers 34, 134 and 234 to the three tone generators 142, 143 and 144 is made on a decision criterion determined by the relative frequency of the actuated notes.
  • the decision criterion implements the entries shown in Table 1.
  • the notation of denoting a frequency, such as f A , by the letter A is used in the table and in the figures.
  • the frequency entries under the three generator columns designate the selected tone that is assigned each of the frequencies.
  • a dashed line indicates an impossible frequency ordering for a keyboard musical instrument.
  • Comparator 130 compares the frequency A stored in frequency number register 121 with the frequency number B stored in the frequency number register 122.
  • the output state of comparator 130 will be a logic state "1" if A>B.
  • Comparator 131 compares the frequency number B stored in frequency number register 122 with the frequency number C stored in the frequency number register 123.
  • the output state of comparator 130 will be a logic state "1" if B>C.
  • Comparator 132 compares the frequency number A with the frequency number C.
  • the output state of comparator 132 will be a logic state "1" if A>C.
  • the lines containing the frequency numbers and the master data set are drawn as single lines. It is to be understood that these are symbolic of a number of lines required to transmit each of the bits in the frequency numbers and the master data set. This is a common drawing simplification used in digital logic systems when the explicit display of each individual bit lines conveys no new information to an explanation of the system operation.
  • each of the three comparators will have a "1" logic output state.
  • Both inputs to the AND-gate 107 are a "1" so that a "1" state is transmitted as a select signal to the select gate 118 to cause the master data set contained in the main register 1 to be available at the output from this select gate.
  • the other two select signals to the select gate 118 will be a logic "0".
  • One input to the NOR-gate 116 is the "1" from AND-gate 107. This will transfer as a "0" state.
  • Both input lines to the NAND-gate 109 are “1” so that one input to the AND-gate 108 is a “0”.
  • the "1" state from the comparator 130 is inverted to a "0” and forms the second input to the AND-gate 108.
  • the second input to the NOR-gate 116 is a "0” and the second and third select signals to the select gate 118 are both "0".
  • the "1" state from comparator 130 is inverted to a "0" as one input to the AND-gate 111.
  • the first select signal to select gate 119 is a "0".
  • the "1" state from comparator 131 is inverted and applied as a "0" state to the AND-gate 112.
  • the third select signal to select gate 119 is a "0”.
  • One input to the NOR-gate 117 is the "0" state output of AND-gate 111.
  • the second input to the NOR-gate 117 is the "0" state output from the AND-gate 112.
  • the output of NOR-gate 117 is a "1” and so the second select signal to the select gate 119 is a "1".
  • the master data set contained in the main register 134 is available at the output of the select gate 119.
  • One input to NOR-gate 114 is the "0" state output from the AND-gate 112.
  • the second input is the “1" state output from the AND-gate 107. Therefore the first select signal for select gate 120 generated by NOR-gate 114 is a "0".
  • One input to NOR-gate 115 is the “0" state output of NOR-gate 116.
  • the second input to NOR-gate 115 is the "1" state output of NOR-gate 117. Therefore the second select signal will be a "0”.
  • One input to the NOR-gate 113 is a "0" state from AND-gate 111 and the second input is a "0" state from AND-gate 112. Therefore the third select signal will be a "1" and the master data set contained in the main register 234 is available at the output of the select gate 120.
  • the waveshape data in the form of master data sets, appearing at the output of the select gates is not transferred into the tone generators until a new note has been actuated on the keyboard.
  • the note detect and assignor 14 contains logic which determines when a new keyswitch has been actuated and generates a new note signal when such a detection is made.
  • the assignment generator 141 will cause the master data set in main register 34 to be assigned to the tone generator corresponding to the highest note for the actuated keyswitches while the master data set in main register 134 will be assigned to the second actuated keyswitch which corresponds to a lower note frequency. This action is detailed as follows.
  • the note detect and assignor will assign a zero value for the frequency number A which is stored in the frequency number register 121.
  • the output logic state from comparator 130 will be a "0" state.
  • the frequency number C is higher in magnitude than the magnitude of the frequency number B.
  • both comparators 131 and 132 will produce a "0" output logic state.
  • the desired condition is obtained in that the master data set stored in main register 34 will be transferred to tone generator 144 when a new note signal is generated by the note detect and assignor 14. This is the desired action for the illustrative example in which C is the highest frequency of the two actuated notes.
  • the output state from AND-gate 111 is a "0", as previously described, so that the first select signal to the select gate 119 is a logic "0".
  • This "0" state is also one input to the NOR-gate 117.
  • the "0" state output from the comparator 130 will produce a "0” state at the output of the AND-gate 112.
  • the second input to the NOR-gate 117 is also a logic “0” which produces a logic "1” state at the output of this NOR-gate.
  • This "1" state is the second select signal to the select gate 119. Therefore when a new note signal is generated by the note detect and assignor 14, the contents of the main register 134 will be transferred to the tone generator #2, 143.
  • the last case to be examined is one in which only a single keyswitch is actuated. It will be assumed for illustrative purposes that the single keyswitch data will be assigned to the tone generator #2, 143. In this case, the desired condition is that the data residing in the main register 34 be transferred to the tone generator #2 143.
  • the frequency numbers A and C will both have a zero value. Thus the comparators 130 and 132 will have a "0" output logic state while comparator 131 will have a "1" output logic state.
  • OR-gate 110 will be a "1" state which is transferred as one of the input signals to the AND-gate 111.
  • the "0" state output from the comparator 130 is inverted to a "1” and applied as the second input to the AND-gate 111.
  • a "1" state will occur for the first select signal to the select gate 119.
  • Examination of the logic states shows that the second and third select signals to the select gate 119 will be in the "0" logic state. Therefore the data residing in the main register 34 will be transferred to the tone generator #2 143 when a NEW NOTE signal is generated by the note detect and assignor 14.
  • the remaining two tone generators are in a "don't care" condition because they are not assigned to any keyboard switch in this illustrative situation.
  • the assignment of tones is always made in a frequency order with the highest frequency note always having a designated tone color, the second note if it exists always an assigned second tone color, and the third note if it exists always has an assigned third tone color.
  • the shift in tone colors does not occur when a keyswitch is released but only occurs when a new actuation of a keyswitch is detected. This prevents any distracting change of tone colors while keyswitches remain in their actuated states unless one or more keyswitches are newly actuated.
  • a sliding formant system such as that described in the referenced U.S. Pat. No. 4,085,644, can be used for the creation of each of the master data sets so that independent sliding formants can be used for any desired combination of the three tones.
  • the extension of the system to more than three tone generators is made by including additional frequency number registers, additional frequency number comparators, additional tone generators, enlarged select gates, and additional select logic similar to that shown in FIG. 2.
  • the number of comparators is equal to the number of distinct pairs of frequency numbers.
  • the number of frequency numbers is equal to the number of tone generators.
  • the number of distinct pairs of N frequencies is given by the binomial coefficient N!/[(N-2)!2].
  • a novel musical effect can be obtained by applying vibrato only to selected generators such as the tone generator which contains data transferred from one of the main registers such as main register 34. In this fashion the top note for the melody line will be generated with vibrato while the other notes simultaneously played on the same keyboard would not have vibrato.
  • the first select signal to each of the three select gates 118, 119, 120 can be used to actuate the vibrato generator for the corresponding tone generator.
  • a system for implementing such a selective vibrato effect is shown in FIG. 3.
  • a note clock and a vibrato generator is contained in each of the tone generators.
  • tone generator 1 142 contains the vibrato generator 177, a note clock 174, and a tone system 171.
  • the vibrato generator 177 In response to a "3" logic state for the first select signal to the select gate 118, the vibrato generator 177 will generate a low frequency signal to frequency modulate the note clock 174.
  • the note clock is operated at a frequency corresponding to the frequency number contained in the frequency number register A.
  • the note clock determines the fundamental frequency of the musical tones created by the tone system 171.
  • the various select signals can be used to control other musical effects such as portamento and glide. In this fashion selected musical effects can be readily provided in an independent fashion for each of the set of tone generators comprising the orchestra chorus.

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